The Happiest Kids in the World

They understand that achievement doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness, but that happiness can cultivate achievement.

Despite my belief that the Netherlands is the perfect place to bring up kids, it would be wrong to call it paradise here. It hasn’t been that easy to integrate and let’s face it: The weather’s shit.

been won over

Happiness is not having the most but accepting what you have

Gina Ford’s The Contented Little Baby Book, Elizabeth Pantley’s The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Harvey Karp’s The Happiest Baby on the Block and Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect the First Year

In 2013, a UNICEF report rated Dutch children the happiest in the world.1 According to researchers, Dutch kids are ahead of their peers in childhood well-being when compared with twenty-nine of the world’s richest industrialized countries